brightonmike

Coffee Admin Theme gives the dashboard a bolder look with sumptous dark tones and a textured background. The theme is fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress supporting the new fly-out menus. Because of this, the theme will not work as intended in older versions.
The plugin has options to switch between different themes, and I will be adding more themes over time.
You also get a great selection of Google Web Fonts to choose, further enhancing your dashboard experience.

Coffee Admin Theme

Coffee Admin Theme is a WordPress dashboard plugin which adjusts the look and feel of the dashboard, via custom themes and fonts.

GuyPrimavera

A Material Design inspired customisable color scheme and re-design for WordPress Admin (v4.0 onwards). Aquila also cleans up the admin area from unnecessary or potentially confusing items for the end-user.
Many updates have been made to the admin area, including:
<ul>
<li>Admin area complete re-design.</li>
<li>Use your own logo instead of the WordPress logo in the admin area and login screen.</li>
<li>Customisable color scheme with color picker.</li>
<li>Roboto typeface to match Material Design guidelines.</li>
<li>“Posts” renamed to “Blog” (can be changed back in Aquila Settings).</li>
<li>Dashboard metaboxes removed and cleaned up.</li>
<li>User “Profile” area cleaned up and simplified.</li>
<li>New custom icon pack.</li>
<li>Current user role added as an admin body class.</li>
<li>Removed “How are you..” from the top-right corner.</li>
<li>Re-designed login screen.</li>
<li>Admin bar de-cluttered.</li>
<li>New dashboard widgets.</li>
<li>WordPress and plugins support links on dashboard.</li>
<li>“Update” notifications hidden from Editors.</li>
<li>“Post Format” removed from posts.</li>
<li>Multisite support.</li>
<li>Gutenberg support.</li>
<li>View server information directly on the dashboard.</li>
<li>Media Library support for clear PNG images.</li>
<li>Aquila Settings page to control most of these options.</li>
</ul>

Aquila Admin Theme


I loved the elegant simplicity and the admin bar reinvented.



With most items aligned right and the Screen Options and Help Tabs incorporated into the the admin bar, the result is simply brilliant.



That said, there's some code running amok in the plugin, a couple of minutes after I installed it, my debug log file grew 1.5MB, after 20 minutes, it was 50MB...



There is a preg_match running non-stop and giving this notice:



PHP Deprecated:  preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #4 ($flags) of type int is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/aquila-admin-theme/admin/colour/lessc.inc.php on line 3401


Beautiful theme but DO NOT INSTALL IT

Material Design inspired admin theme with a customisable color scheme. Add your own custom logo to match your website.

Coffee Admin Theme vs Aquila Admin Theme